NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (2130MHz vs 1740MHz)

Lower TDP (70W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

12 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +211%

37.42 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Oct 2020

Quadro Ada

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1620 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

2130 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

10752

88

TMUs

336

48

ROPs

112

88

Tensor Cores

336

22

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

102.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

187.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

12.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

12.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

187.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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